THE SOVIET NAVY
MISSION TO UNITED STATES PLAN FOR HIGH SEAS FLEET (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) MOSCOW, Feb. 16 The Vice-Commissar of the Navy, Admiral Isakov, and seven other naval experts will sail for the United States shortly. No official information has been given, but it is believed this may be the first step of a plan to creat a High Seas Fleet by the purchase of capital ships or machinery for the production of armour plate in Soviet shipyards. CZECH MACHINE-GUNS PURCHASED BY AUSTRALIA (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 16 It is reliably stated, says Reuter’s Prague correspondent, that the Australian Government has purchased considerable quantities of the latest pattern of Czech machine-guns, and also has secured a licence for the manufacture of a new r type of machine-gun reputed to be superior to the Bren gun. BRITIBH AIR FORCE AMERICAN PLANES BOUGHT (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Feb. 15 The first batch of the 250 Lockheed Hudson general reconnaissance aircraft which are being built in the United States for the Royal Air Force arrived at Liverpool and w'ere conveyed to the airport at Speke for final assembly and test flights.
YUGOSLAVIA’S BUDGET .United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Feb. 17, 1.20 p.m.) BELGRADE, Feb. 16 Yugoslavia is spending £3,000,000 more on armaments in 1939-40. STAGGERING COST READY TO BEAR BURDEN PRESS APPROVES PROGRAMME (Independent Cable) LONDON, Feb. 16 All sections of the press warmly
approve the defence programme. The Daily Telegraph says: “The cost is staggering, but the country is ready to bear whatever burden will assure national security. All it asks i» that it receive value for the money, and receive it quickly.” The News Chronicle says: “The programme will show the dictators that their apparently pacific speeches have no! pulled tlie wool over our eyes.” The Daily Express: ‘‘The new programme will make us so strong that no enemy will dare to attack us.” The Daily Mail: “The barometer tells us we are becoming stronger daily as the needle of expenditure moves steadily from ‘danger’ to ‘security.’ ” The Financial News says that with drastic economies and drastic taxation it might be possible to keep defence borrowing between £265,000,000 and £295,000,000 in the coming year,
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20733, 17 February 1939, Page 7
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